Ballet Beautiful

"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library."

 -Haruki Murakami

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Kristina Shapran (Russian ballerina)

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Olga Smirnova, rising star of the Bolshoi Ballet

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Zakharova and Bolle in “La Bayadere”

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Maria Kochetkova

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Staatsballett Berlin, Polina Semionova in Zanella’s “Strauss Incontra Verdi”

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A Vaganova character dance exam

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Maria Kochetkova

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Kristina Shapran (Russian ballerina)

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OLGA SMIRNOVA IN DIAMONDS from Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ at Bolshoi Theatre, March 7th 2013.

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